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Anna Mikusheva, Professor of Economics at MIT, a New Economic School graduate (MAE'2002), and a member of the NES International Advisory Board, became a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 

The Academy announced its new members on April 25th, 2024. According to its official

Anton Suvorov (MAE'1999) has been heading New Economic School since September 1, 2022. We met with him to discuss what he has done over the past year and his vision for the future of NES. Professor Suvorov became the School’s sixth Rector, continuing the fine tradition established in 2018, when NES was first headed by one of its graduates..

– You have been at the head of New Economic School for more than a year.…

The New Economic School ranks first in the Top 10 in terms of investments in the Entrepreneurial Universities 2023 Rating. NES graduates with economic and managerial degrees attracted $1.95 billion of investment in total. The second place in this Rating is taken by the HSE, and the third one went to Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The Rating in the sphere of Economic and Managerial Education represents 18 universities located in Moscow,…

This year the NES annual charity race New Economic Start was held at the end of September. In Moscow almost 100 graduates, students, professors, staff and NES friends took part in the event. Apart from Moscow, group and individual launches were held in 11 cities around the world, namely: Berkeley, Dubai, Yerevan, Limassol, Lausanne, London, Los Angeles, New York, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Chicago.

Traditionally, one of the most popular one was…

The Times published 100 biggest taxpayers in the UK list. The NES graduate Russian-born billionaire Alex Gerko taking the top spot.

Gerko, 42, who founded trading company XTX Markets in 2015, paid an estimated £487.4million in tax. This is up from the £117.4million he paid the previous year, when he ranked in tenth place.

Alex Gerko, who has been a British citizen since 2016, is according to The Times to be worth $2 billion now…

Oleg Itskhoki, NES graduate (MAE’2004), professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, received the John Bates Clark Medal in the AEA Awards Ceremony on January 7, 2023, during the ASSA Annual Meeting. This prize is a second most important award in economics after the Nobel Prize.

The news that Oleg Itshoki became the winner…

Dmitrii Kofanov (MAE’2013) became the winner of the Ronald H. Coase Dissertation Award 2021 of The Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics.

The award committee members Federica Carugati (King’s College London), Florian Englmaier (University of Munich), Michael Powell (Northwestern University),…

On July 15, Revolut, which was co-founded in 2015 by NES graduate Nikolai Storonsky (MAE'2007), announced that it was valued at $33 bln in a new funding round. The company's value increased sixfold in just a year and a half, and it has become the most expensive fintech startup in the UK and second…